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Nigel Farage was accused of hypocrisy this week when, having launched Ukip’s anti-immigration campaign, it emerged he employs his German wife as his secretary. His wife, Kirsten, is paid £27,000 a year by the European Parliament and has amassed more than £200,000 since she began working for him, but Farage insisted no Briton could do the job.

“I don’t think anybody else would want to be in my house at midnight going through emails and getting me briefed for the next day,” he said. Yet I believe a British person could happily be employed by Nigel Farage, and have sent